EFOW " We needs" UN Summit of the Future

1. Summit of the Future 2024
“We needs”
Energy- Economies, Transitions, Climate and
Nature .
It is in..
(1) our Organization,
(2) our Conversion,
(3) our Market & Working Approaches,
(4) our World View (re. “Our Ideal” )
(4) our Leadership Qualities and Education.
1 Feb 2024

2. We Need…
1. RE-ORGANISATION. SG Guterres Summit of the Future calls for a (deep)
reform of the present international organization and institutes. Not in the
least to save the role and possibilities of the UN Security Council (“ it is
Peace that we need and are better to seek and keep” ) but also the chance
of keeping and maintaining momentum on the UN sustainable
development/ climate action agenda. This call for a reform of the UN
organization- and in order to boost its efficiencies, effect, relevance,
representation and impact- is not young, but stems already from the turn
of this century. Earlier, and at the adoption of the UN Sustainable
Development Goals - parties such like Jeffrey Sachs (UNSDSN)1
, including
this practice, voiced and lobbied for a build-up and strengthening of
REGIONAL UN DELIVERY OFFICES2
- and that can relieve the Centre,
and better organize and deliver the UN Common Home Care programs-
Energy Transition, Climate Action and UN SDGS- in its relevant REGION.
(as the agenda of the UN Main Office organization is and gets swamped by
issues non-regional parties are better not to touch: it is in our staged
organization and delivery model- that we can make best progress and
change. This is true for the Peace and Security agenda , as this is very
much true for the Energy Transition & Trade, Climate Action and UN SDGs
agenda: Energy Transition and the Electrification of Regional Energy
Systems-by the Renewables- requires REGIONAL co-operation,and
regional outlooks and solutions3
.
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E.g. Jeffrey Sachs: if China, Japan, Korea and Australia were to collaborate on the Electrification of East
Asia- well , you would see this point.. This is also valid in Europe (EU), Americas, African UNION, MENA.
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See Proposal: UN Lower Houses: Regional Delivery Platforms and Decision Centres
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But also : ClubofRome, Earth4All, etc, etc,
2 Feb 2024

3. 2. CONVERSION. The call for an Ecological Conversion of our Nations,
Economies, BUsinesses and Leadership- stems from the foundation of
UNEP, till today It was in 1972 , the Club Of Rome published its “ Limits to
Growth” report. In the same year, the UN nations established the UNEP
(United Nations Environmental Program) organization.
Now 50 year onwards, and a little different than 50 years ago, the science
community has fully boarded the concerns with our natural habitat and
environment.:
On Plastics and Pollutions- in the Air, Oceans and on our Lands, in our
over-exploitation of our Seas and Land, On (land and soil) erosions, In our
loss of biodiversities, in intensities of farming and cattle stock - overall- in
our rather extractive and commercial mis-use of our Nature.
From the David Attenboroghs of this world ( “ we have grown the wild into
the mild” )- towards the environmental movement, Earth4All.org and our
Scientists- such and Johan Rockstrom- todays science indicate that
(today) we have already crossed 6 out of the 9 planetary boundaries, and if
nothing changes- we will soon see ourselves in some serious troubles.
Now- and to say it a little bit more politely or poetically:
Pope Francis wrote an (ethical compass) encyclical on this: Laudato Si!-
and to remind humanity that our World, Living World, Nature - is also
something of Awe and Wonder, and invites us to be cared for- also for the
generations to come: not to be indifferent about, nor to destroy this.:
And I quote:
1. “We are faced…with one complex crisis which is both social and
environmental.” (Laudato Si’, 139)
3 Feb 2024

4. 2. “Unless we struggle with these deeper issues, I do not believe that our
concern for ecology will produce significant results.” (Laudato Si’, 160)
3. “There can be no ecology without an adequate anthropology.” (Laudato
Si’, 118)
4. “[E]nvironmental problems cannot be separated from… how individuals
relate to themselves.” (Laudato Si’, 141)
Seeing and experiencing the Beauty in/of Nature.and Restoring our
Business and Economic Relationships with Ecology (away from
spreadsheets, yields and exploitation factors).
It is all to do with the relationship between our Engineered Economies (“
Tree of Knowledge, Money, Power, Wealth & Greed” ) , Between
Ourselves and that with of Nature (“Tree of Life” ):
4 Feb 2024

5. 3. WORKING APPROACH Let me start, here- by quoting some (thesis) from
my earlier manifest: 99 Theses to Build Back Better (2021);
I have come to believe that our time asks us to look differently
at “ Energy” ("an essential service for human life, human
development- not just "a commodity" to be traded or profited
from, and an industry in need of a new business model ) , and
, hence, and especially for "the too big to fail"corporations is
not solely to be in the hands of a management supervisory
board, and/or shareholders investors. ..
In Other words:
It is time to heal (or re-balance) some of the “not so handy factors” in our
present. overly streamlined4
energy trading, commodified and (free-)market
based energy sector- and where energy corporations (and trading desks)
are run on the basis of Portfolio Optimization, Profit Seeking and
Shareholder value maximization5
- - without any firm(er) roles,
commitments or responsibilities (duty of care to communities, countries,
the whole) for the provision of affordable, available and energy transition or
energy assurances- over time.,
It is also time to change some of our WorldViews and Organised Ways -
that once we are bestowed with energy resources (be it Oil, Gas, Sun,
Wind or Minerals)- we seemingly believe and behave - we have the natural
right to explore and monetize, and play “ politics” (“ divide and conquer” )
with it.
And with “ the Big Elephant in the Room” : Sovereignty does not mean that
you are allowed to harm the Others, Nature, Future Generations or the
Common Good: to the contrary!
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and where energy is flowing to the ones willing to pay the highest price
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Where efficiencies prevail
5 Feb 2024

6. The (market, many) ways and games of “ Money, Power and the Prize” ,
we see ourselves, today, in- on and over “ Energy” - is better to transform
with and in our Energy transition programs (System B).6
“ Making room for the New” - is thus not only a technical or technology-
organizational change path we are invited to realize.
No!- it is also in our World View, Ways of our Market-, Sector- and
Corporate(/Business Model) Organisations- we are to realize changes,- for
more healthy ways forwards!7
The ideal “ Energy-Economies Free of Concerns. Here and There. Now
and Tomorrow” is the antidote, the voice much needed- to some of “ the
ugly” habits slipped in, over the 100 years of intense petro-economies, or
geo-politics ( Me First!).
Again, and a bit differently worded:
If our aim and intent is to move from “ System A” towards “ System B” 8
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then it can no longer be true that we remain in the hands of Portfolio-,
Shareholder Optimization, Or Resource Country Leadership- that call or
lobby for level playing fields, profit returns maximization or derivatives to
action (as was the case in the Paris Agreement - and in country mitigation
plans, up till now)
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on Energy, Transition, Climate and Nature- EFOW Agenda2024- Good Future Making
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Our chosen or established organizational forms and agency constellation- determines our
opportunity and outcome. IN order to improve the chances of a better outcome, we are better to
change our present organisational forms.
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The (energy) trilemma- everywhere now valid on this planet- Energy Security (or
better: Availability), Affordability and Sustainability is a combined Government,
Corporate and Social Responsibility to fill-in.
6 Feb 2024

7. We will be (much) better (off) to see ourselves in Responsible Leadership
hands committed and responsible for the true transition and
transformation:
We are invited to re-invent the present Power and Energy
markets and sectors: nationally, regionally, and internationally.
Whilst in the 20st century Oil and Gas were the number One
and preferred sources of supply, the 21st century is served if
we know-how to redesign our present homes, cities, cars,
transportation, urban lifestyles and working life- and power
these functions from (as much) renewables power grids and
solutions.- and let Oil and Gas become the Last Man, "the
Keeper"- in the (energy) value chains. Our focus in the
Energy Sector is to be on the engineering, manufacturing and
installation capacities, capabilities and volumes we are to
realize in and with new energy architectures and
product/lifestyle re-designs.
The roles and responsibilities of the present incumbents
(Large and Major Oil and Gas Corporations IOCs/ NOCs) in
our World Energy System are better to change and can be
greatly advanced:..
7 Feb 2024

8. 4. Our World View. Our Words View matters. As Our Ways of Going About.
Prof Jeffrey Sachs has given a word to this: It is important to (upkeep) our
Global Decency.
In addition, I like to speak and focus my words on the aspirations we like to
achieve- together- in the Energy Sector, and for some very good reasons.
Our goal is to attain (Sustainable) Energy-Economies Free of Concerns:
Here and There and Now and Tomorrow9
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One Team (of Energy Professionals),. “ One Ideal” .
In all this, there is (today) not really a technical or an energy professional
(knowledge) constraint that may withhold us from attaining this ideal.
Today, however, and as it stands, it is in our World or Sector View, in our
Organization, our Commerce and in our Upkeep of our Self-Interests or
Geo-Politics of Emotions- that withholds us from our simple ideal:
In all this and that- remains- our call and possibility of Decent Leadership
and to “ To Walk in more Beauty"
The term " Walk in (more) Beauty" originates from the Indian Tribes, and
carries as meaning:
" To walk (work, live) in harmony with all things ( People, Animals, Nature-
Tree of Life) . This includes how we walk, feel physically and emotionally,
and in exploring your own Life and situation. "
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and for that I take full considerations of the Energy Trilemma, the state of the various
continents and countries (/ business community) with respect to energy, and the attainment of
the Paris Agreement, UN SDGs and Peace and Security- over the agenda
8 Feb 2024

9. In modern day Government and Corporate Organisation- I would translate
this to:
It is about (knowing) the difference between the Tree of Knowledge vs. the
Tree of Life.
And to apply and act upon this " in Wisdom from the Heart" ( Pope Francis
Encyclicals Laudato Si, Fratelli Tutti) - in all that we do,:
There can be no renewal of our relationship with Nature, without a renewal
of our Humanity as well.
Deep Peace, Deep Humanity, Deep Ecology
And a little bit differently stated, by Dr Tilman Bauer in his most recent
dissertation : Business for Peace: A New Paradigm for Making a Collective
Living:
…holistic peace entails the recognition that the human experience is
quintessentially transrational. Business has the opportunity to contribute to
a paradigm shift that assigns the holistic wellbeing of all as the top priority
of human activity. It emphasizes being in balance with oneself, with others,
with nature and with the whole of the universe….
And to conclude - this section- with a sentence given to this world by Ana
Christina Campos Marques, another PhD on Sustainability:
"The world does not want to be saved. The world wants to be loved.
It is through Love (for the World, Nature, People) that we can save our
world."-
9 Feb 2024

10. 5. Leadership Selection and Qualities. We need to look a little bit closer to
the Qualities, Experience and Character Needs of Men and Women - and who
are chosen to move from their National Playground- to the- ever more Complex
International Affairs : Care for our Common Home10
and abilities to Triangulate
the various Political and Societal National and International interests into
(Organizational) Reforms and Programs that Work- are surely to be taken a little
more serious.
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Deep Peace, Deep Humanity, Deep Ecology
10 Feb 2024